Research Pillar(s): Political Behaviour and Political Psychology
About: The Political Behaviour Group brings together a diverse group of faculty and students from across LSE to share research on topics related to public opinion, voting and elections, political parties, political communication, civic participation, intergroup relations and political psychology. Members of the group draw on varied methods and disciplinary traditions. Currently, there is significant methodological expertise in randomised experiments (survey and field experiments), sample surveys, causal inference with observational data, text-as-data methods and qualitative interviews. Regional expertise includes Britain, Europe, the United States, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and India. Members of the group also run the Electoral Psychology Observatory.
Engaging researchers from the Department of Government and other LSE departments (including Media and Communications, Methodology, Psychological and Behavioural Science and the European Institute), the group holds a weekly research seminar on Thursdays throughout the academic year and hosts visiting scholars from across the UK and abroad.
Faculty members from the Political Behaviour Group are world leading experts in their field, regularly appear on national and international media, have been awarded numerous competitive research grants, awards, and fellowships from national and international funding bodies, and teach on the Department’s MSc Political Science (Political Behaviour stream), the BSc in Politics & Data Science, as well as across various other BSc, MSc and MRes/PhD programmes.
Members: Prof Chris Anderson, Dr Sarah Brierley, Prof Michael Bruter, Dr Zach Dickson, Dr Florian Foos, Dr Sarah Harrison, Prof Sara Hobolt, Dr Ryan Jablonski, Dr Nirvikar Jassal, Prof Michael Laver, Dr George Ofosu, Dr Miguel Pereira, Dr Mathias Poertner, Dr Pavithra Suryanarayan, Dr Melissa Sands
Current PhD candidates: Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno, A. Ceren Cinar, Gaetano Inglese, Tiffany Lau, Nick Lewis, Asfa Shakeel, Alex Yeandle
Former PhD students: Dr Eri Bertsou, Dr Jack Blumenau, Dr Diane Bolet, Dr Julian Hoerner, Dr Tom Hunter, Dr Katharina Lawall, Dr Julia Leschke, Dr Nicola Mastrorocco, Prof Nick Vivyan, Prof Markus Wagner, Dr Christopher Wratil
Political Behaviour Seminar Series: Meetings of the Political Behaviour Seminar series are open to all staff and students (from LSE and other institutions). The seminar will take place on Thursdays (in term-time) 4pm to 5pm, in CBG.4.17. unless otherwise stated and will also be available online via Zoom.
Seminar Convener(s): Dr Florian Foos, Prof Sara Hobolt, Dr Mathias Poertner
PhD student coordinator: Len Metson
Autumn Term
Thursday 3 October
Speaker: Constantine Boussalis (Trinity College Dublin)
Thursday 10 October
Speaker: Thomas Robinson (LSE)
Thursday 17 October
Speaker: Leonid Peisakhin (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Thursday 24 October
Speaker: Alex Yeandle (LSE)
Thursday 31 October
Speaker: Marta Antonetti (LSE)
Thursday 14 November
Speaker: Laura Serra (LSE)
Thursday 28 November
Speaker: Antonio Valentim (LSE)
Winter Term
Thursday 23 January
Speaker: Swen Hutter (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thursday 30 January
Speaker: Nan Zhang (University of Mannheim)
Thursday 6 February
Speaker: Seonghui Lee (University of Essex)
Thursday 13 February
Speaker: Tine Paulsen (University of Southern California)
Thursday 20 February
Speaker: Merete Bech Seeberg (Aarhus University)
Thursday 20 March
Speaker: Federica Genovese (Oxford University)
Thursday 3 April
Speaker: David Broockman (University of California, Berkeley)
Thursday 19 June
Speaker: Anja Neundorf (University of Glasgow)
Autumn Term
Thursday 5 October 2023
Speaker: Daniel de Kadt (LSE)
Thursday 19 October 2023
Speaker: Melissa Sands (LSE)
Thursday 26 October 2023
Speaker: Elias Dinas (European University Institute)
Thursday 9 November 2023
Speaker: Mirya R Holman (University of Houston)
Thursday 16 November 2023 (4.30pm to 5.30pm in MAR.2.05)
Speaker: Peter Dinesen (UCL)
Thursday 23 November 2023
Speaker: Ben Tappin (Royal Holloway University)
Thursday 30 November 2023
Speaker: Toni Rodon (Pompeu Fabra University)
Thursday 7 December 2023
Speaker: Lauren Young (University of California, Davis)
Winter Term
Thursday 25 January 2024
Speaker: Nick Lewis (LSE)
Thursday 1 February 2024
Speaker: Vincente Valentim (Oxford)
Thursday 8 February 2024
Speaker: Diane Bolet (Essex)
Thursday 29 February 2024
Speaker: Zeynep Somer-Topcu (University of Texas at Austin)
Thursday 7 March 2024
Speaker: Yamil Velez (Columbia University)
Thursday 21 March 2024
Speaker: Adeline Lo (Wisconsin-Madison)
Thursday 28 March 2024
Speaker: Asli Ceren Cinar (LSE)
Spring Term
Thursday 2 May 2024
Speaker: David Fortunato (University of California, San Diego)
Thursday 9 May 2024
Speaker: Maria Grasso (QMUL)
Thursday 6 June 2024
Speaker: Soledad Prillaman (Stanford)